Support is added to the STB Original mode ATA/SATA->Commands menu. This new feature displays all of the current DCO settings of the selected drive. Drives can be attached either via native SATA ports or via LSI/PERC/ATTO SAS HBAs.

SMART Attributes updated

Unused Reserved Block Count Total

SATA Downshift Error Count

End-To-End Error (IOEDC) Count

Head Stability

Induced Op-Vibration Detection

Reported Uncorrectable Errors

Command Timeout

High-Fly Writes

Vibration During Write

Shock During Write

Disk Shift

Endurance Remaining

Power-On Hours

Head-Flying Hours

Total LBAs Written

Total LBAs Read

Read Error Recovery Rate

Free Fall Protection

Performance/Error Graph Test

The Disk->Test->Performance Error Graph test has been updated to include both a Read and a new Write choice to display command latency for both Read and Write commands.

New SAS Controller Support

All of the ATA/SATA Command and Test functions now support testing SATA drives attached to LSI, Dell PERC, and ATTO SAS HBAs.

SATA IDENTIFY Information Expanded

The ATA/SATA->Commands->View Identify Data has been upgraded to now display the state of all bits of all words, showing whether any setting is either set or NOT set. Previous versions of STB Suite only displayed items which were set.

Drive Screening Test

The Disk->Test->Drive Screening Test menu choice now displays a suggestion that the user use the Disk Manufacturing Module for drive screening instead of the older single-drive test.

ScriptWriterPro

The ScriptWriter Pro environment will be left in the STB Suite but will not be upgraded and issues will not be supported starting November 1, 2011.

STB Original Mode Bug Fixes

Performance/Error Graph Test

The Disk->Test->Performance Error Graph Test has been updated to allow testing of drives with a capacity of 2TB or greater.

Quick QC Test

The Disk->Test->Quick QC Test has a bug fixed that prevented targets beyond the first 15 on the system to be tested.

The Disk->Test->Quick QC Test has a bug fixed that prevented proper testing of drives with a capacity of 2TB or greater.

Disk Device Information

The double-click Disk->Device Information-> Error data screen ->Total KB Written & Read now shows the same as when printing this information. Formerly the screen displayed “Total KB Written” while the printed reported displayed “Total Bytes Written”.

Manufacturing Module (DMM) Additional Features & Tests

SMART Attributes updated

The list of SATA SMART Attributes logged in the DMM SMART Test has been updated to now include definition/display of the following SATA SMART Attribute names:

Unused Reserved Block Count Total

SATA Downshift Error Count

End-To-End Error (IOEDC) Count

Head Stability

Induced Op-Vibration Detection

Reported Uncorrectable Errors

Command Timeout

High-Fly Writes

Vibration During Write

Shock During Write

Disk Shift

Endurance Remaining

Power-On Hours

Head-Flying Hours

Total LBAs Written

Total LBAs Read

Read Error Recovery Rate

Free Fall Protection

SATA IDENTIFY Information Expanded

The SATA Info Test has been upgraded to now log the state of all bits of all words, showing whether any setting is either set or NOT set. Previous versions of this test only logged items which were set. Here is an example taken from a DMM log file – all the items showing “NOT…” show the new feature:

NOP command NOT supported

READ BUFFER command supported

WRITE BUFFER command supported

Host protected area supported

DEVICE RESET command NOT supported

SERVICE interrupt NOT supported

release interrupt NOT supported

look ahead supported

write cache supported

Power Management feature set supported

Removable Media feature set NOT supported

New Tests available

Three new tests are available via the DMM External Program Test choice.

WriteSameSCSI

This new test uses the SCSI/FC/SAS WRITESAME functionality to write all blocks of the device under test while only needed to transfer one block of data once for the test. This eliminates almost all bus use during the test allowing each disk drive to complete the full media write at its full-speed.The data pattern written can be specified by using the DMM External Test -> Command Line Parameters window to enter the desired data pattern. Available data patterns are:

pattern=allzeros

pattern=allones

pattern=altzeroandone

pattern=altoneandzero

pattern=incrementing

pattern=decrementing

pattern=random

pattern=walkingzeros

pattern=walkingones

pattern=alt1and0thenalt0and1

pattern=alt0and1thenalt1and0

WriteSameSATA

This new test uses the SATA SCT functionality to write all blocks of the device under test while only needed to transfer one block of data once for the test. This eliminates almost all bus use during the test allowing each disk drive to complete the full media write at its full-speed.The data pattern written can be specified by using the DMM External Test -> Command Line Parameters window to enter the desired data pattern. Available data patterns are: